[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary and little endian encoding

[David Leimbach]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:

> > I'm speaking specifically of the encode/decode functions.  I have no idea
> how
> > they're implemented.
> >
> > Are you saying that encode is doing something really simple and the
> default
> > encodings for things just happen to be big endian?  If so, then I
> understand
> > the pain.... but it still means I have to roll my own :-)  I guess if one
> must
> > choose, big endian kind of makes sense, except that the whole world is
> little
> > endian now, except for networks :-)  (No one *really* cares about
> anything but
> > x86 anyway these days right?)
>
> Oh, 'encode' has type:
>
>    encode :: Binary a => a -> ByteString
>
> it just encodes with the default instances, which are all network order:
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_in_networking
>

Yeah I understand that Big Endian == Network Byte Order... which would be
true, if I wasn't talking about Plan 9's 9P protocol which specifies little
endian bytes on the wire (as far as I can tell anyway from the man page).

Dave


>
> -- Don
>
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